Chan Ju (Jeannie) Kwon is the 2007 recipient of the UTRC’s WTS Student Award of $1000, which goes to the winner of the Women’s Transportation Seminar’s (WTS) Leonard Braun Memorial Graduate Scholarship. Jeannie is working on a Master’s degree in Public Administration at Wagner School of Public Service of New York University. She was an assistant to Elliot Sander at DMJM Harris and has followed him to the MTA, where she is a Special Assistant to the Executive Director. In her new position, she is responsible for coordinating the MTA Quarterly Review process to establish performance measurement goals for the agency in conjunction with other MTA personnel.

Jeannie also started the Wagner Transportation Association (WTA) at NYU, which has the purpose of connecting students to transportation industry practitioners. Through the WTA, she has arranged for walking tours of the Fulton Street Station and Grand Central Terminal and talks by NYC Councilman John Liu and NYSDOT Commission Tom Madison. Jeannie is particularly concerned about issues of management and sustainability. She states that: “I am specifically interested in continuous quality improvement in management operations, oriented towards customer service for transportation. I’m also interested in how transportation leaders can green the infrastructure and pursue sustainability initiatives.”